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'Christmas in New Salem' offered Dec. 3-4 HK< THIN 2- PAGET • PLAINPEALKK ; FRIDAY, DECEMBER2, ttC The kind of austere Christmas Abraham Lincoln would have known as a young man living at New Salem will be re-created when the Department of Con­ servation sponsors "Christmas at New Salem," an TiHnnU Heritage Days event slated Dec. 8-4 at New Salem State Park near Petersburg. Activities are scheduled from 10a.m. to4 p.m. both days of the event, according to Phyllis Eubanks, Conservation Department special events coordinator. "Because of the conservative religious background of the villagers and the economic restraints of the time," Eubanks said, "Christmas at New Salem bore little resemblance to the commercialized celebration of today." » Thee were no Christmas trees at New Salem in the 1830s, Eubanks said, no decorations, no festive lights. The tough, fundamentalist villagers had little time or inclination to participate in holiday frivolities. , Christmas was just another day, with chores to be done, and little leisure time. At the most, they might have had a larger than usual meal and perhaps a special Christmas service at the village school, which also served as a church. To recreate a typical New Sparkle Cards Cut out objects from old Christ­ mas cards or winter outdoor scenes. Add enough water with 1 cup of flour to make a thick paste. Add 2 drops of white glue. Grad­ ually add Va-Vx cup of salt until paste is thick and gritty. One to two teaspoons of Fine silver glit­ ter added to your mixture makes even more sparkle. Brush your glitter mixture on with a paint brush to add snow to trees, shrubs, roofs, etc. Fold a piece of paper like a greeting card. Paste your sparkl­ ing items on. Write a message in-< side and you've made creative' Christmas cards! Salem Christmas, authentically garbed men, women and children-many of whom are members of the New Salem League organization-will go about the daily activites that would have typified life in the first half of the nineteenth century. In addition, a battery of craftspersons and musicians have been invited to round out the portrayal of Christmas at the restored Illinois village from which Lincoln launched his political career. "The Lincoln's New Salem League is a remarkable group," Eubanks said. "Without them, this event would be impossible." The New Salem League is a sizable group of Petersburg- Springfield area citizens who hold New Salem especially dear. League members submit to extensive training not only to learn authentic period crafts, but also to prepare them for c answering questions and meeting the public. During the summer, New Salem Volunteers man the reconstructed cabins in the New Salem Village and demonstrate such chores as spinning, the making of lye soap and hewing logs. During New Salem Christmas most of the village's 24 cabins will be open to the public, largely due to the efforts of the New Salem League. Costumed women, playing the role of housewife and mother, will demonstrate open hearth cooking in many of the cabins, preparing stews, ham and beans, cornbread, baked apples and apple dumplings. "A slightly more bountiful meal may have been one of the few concessions New Salem villagers made to the season," Eubanks said. "A woman may have had two or three ovens on the hearth instead of one. Still, the holiday meal probably didn't involve anything more festive than a pot of venison stew." Because of the volume of people who attend New Salem Christmas, samples of the hearth-cooked meals will not be offered. However, visitors can get a handful of popcorn freshly popped on the hearth and drenched with freshly churned butter at the Rutledge Tavern, and wash it down with a cup of hot mulled cider. The Tavern, Eubanks noted was not a tip­ pling house, but rather a kind of Lake Region YMCA Y's MEN'S CLUB a Weekdays 12 to 9 p.m. Sat. & Sun. 9 to6 p.m. i w LOCATION: Crystal Point Mall, Crystal Lake (Next to Golden Beer Reeteurent) NOW OPEN REMEMBER CHRISTMAS TREES art cut in early November while the sap is still in the trunk and branches. This keeps them fresh. Our trees are treated to seal in the moisture. . -mwiu GET THE BEST SELECTION by Shopping EARLY. Take your beautiful tree home and place it in water. It will last longer when you bring it Into the house. We suggest that you make a fresh cut across the bottom to allow better feeding. MICHIGAN SCOTCH PINES are the FULLEST. Full needled trees with sturdy branches allow the greatest opportunity in decorating...simple or elaborate. 17 YEARS of supplying you with the FINEST TREES at LOW PRICES. WREATHS and BUNDLES of boughs are available while the supply lasts. Get yours early for decoration. PROCEEDS of this sale are used to provide additional YMCA facllties for your enjoyment. » EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT COUPON } Good for $2.00 toward purchast of a 7'TREE * Good for $1.00 on purchase of a WREATH or s 4'-6' TREE $ 1982 Lake Region Y's Men's * Christmas Tree Sale * £ Not VaM altar Dec. 3, IW3 \ hotel that boarded travelers and served meals. In addition to cooking, authentically garbed women will demonstrate wool spinning, flax spinning, natural dyeing of fibers with roots and walnut husks, quilting, and other chores that might have been a part of the pioneer woman's typical Christmas Day. A few leisure time arts, such as the making of corn husk dolls, also will be demonstrated. A number of men, dressed as their pioneer forebears, will demonstrate the skills and crafts that would have occupied their Christmases as well. Demonstrated in the cabins will be the arts of blacksmithing, wood working, leather alwe making, barrel making, brfbotn making, chair caning ana the art of patiently mixing and rolling pills for medicinal use. "The accent is on authenticity throughout the event," Eubanks said. "We want visitors to have a real empathy for what it was like to be in New Salem on Christmas Day in the 1830s." The few concessions to Christmas that may have been observed in Lincoln's day will be portrayed. Carolers will stroll through the village streets and period music will be performed by musicians playing fiddles, dulcimers and other in­ struments. At the Rutledge Tavern, which will be a center of activity during the event, costumed women will entertain with autoharp and dulcimer music. In New Salem's restored one- room school, a costumed school teacher will give youngsters a taste of frontier eduction theory. Young visitors will be en­ couraged to behave as their 19th century counterparts might have as the "school marm" sternly brings home the fun­ damentals of "readin', ritin' and 'rithmetic." Free wagon rides through the village will be offered and, if there is sufficient snow, visitors will have an opportunity to take a turn in a horse-drawn sleigh. A root cellar near the Rutledge Tavern will be stocked with garden vegetables and opened for public inspection. The village museum will be open both days and costumed women there will demonstrate the art of quilting. Christmas at New Salem is one of the DOC's Heritage Days events, which are held at state parks and historic sites throughout Illinois. 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